Afternoon: Plan to arrive at the hotel in the afternoon. Due to larger weekend groups, your room probably won't be ready until the stated check-in time. However you are welcome to explore the grounds, waterfront and bakery until your room is ready. Check in with the group leader to receive your name tag and program booklet. Check in with the hotel to receive your room assignment.

Dinner: Dinner in the hotel restaurant, buffet style.

Evening: After dinner gather as a group for ORIENTATION. We'll receive the schedule and have a chance to get to know one another. Tonight's meeting will be kept short since many of you will have driven longer distances and would prefer to get to bed early.

Lodging: Rowleys Bay Resort

Meals Included: Dinner

History of Peninsula Music Festival / Door County Fish Boil / Evening Entertainment

Breakfast: Breakfast in the hotel restaurant, buffet style. Perhaps you'll want to try the Swedish pancakes.

Morning: Begin your program with an on-site lecture on THE HISTORY OF THE PENINSULA MUSIC FESTIVAL. This world-class music festival celebrates its 59th year in 2011. The Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra consists of outstanding musicians from around the country. The a 30-minute break to stretch your legs and then come back for a second lecture on THE HISTORY OF THE PENINSULA MUSIC FESTIVAL. Discover how it grew out of the Early Moravian Music Festival. Learn more about the Moravian Church in America and the settlement that flourished in Ephraim. Not only is the Peninsula Music Festival unique in the fact that it is located in Door County, but it is also unique in that the entire nine concert season is performed in three weeks each August. The history is rich in wonderful characters and stories. After 50+ years, there isn’t much that HASN’T happened!

Lunch: Lunch in the hotel restaurant, buffet style.

Afternoon: MEET THE RESORT OWNER and learn about the history of Rowleys Bay Resort. Take a walk with Jewel Peterson Ouradnik down to the water's edge and learn more about the history of this area on the Mink River Estuary and across from Newport State Park. Come back to the hotel BAKERY BEHIND THE SCENES with Jewel as she explains how they make their famous caramel pecan rolls and Swedish skorpa. If that wasn't enough you'll want to join resident storyteller Don by the fire pit and learn the history of the DOOR COUNTY FISH BOIL. There are many versions of this story but Don's got one of the best and you can't beat the view! Bring your camera for the spectacular "boil over". When the fish is done we eat.

Dinner: Dinner in the hotel restaurant, buffet style. Tonight's menu features fresh Lake Michigan Whitefish with real Wisconsin melted butter.

Evening: Evening entertainment TBA.

Lodging: Rowleys Bay Resort

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Breakfast in the hotel restaurant, buffet style. There is always fresh fruit available.

Morning: MEET THE MUSIC LIBRARIAN. The Music Librarian for the Peninsula Music Festival will talk about where the music comes from, how it is prepared for rehearsal and performance and about licensing and royalty fees. This is an interesting job and very few people even know it exists. The librarian will bring a full set of symphony music and explain all that goes into its preparation.

Lunch: Lunch in the hotel restaurant, buffet style.

Afternoon: After lunch, MEET THE ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR. Associate Conductor Stephen Alltop will present a program specific to the music that will be heard at that evening's concert. Stephen is a wonderful speaker with a vast musical knowledge. He will explain how and why the music for the concert was chosen and why the guest artist was selected to play the solo.

Dinner: Dinner in the hotel restaurant, buffet style.

Evening: PENINSULA MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERT. Board our motor coach for a quick trip to Fish Creek and the Door Community Auditorium. The 60th season of the Peninsula Music Festival opens with Smetana's "Bartered Bride Overture," last performed at the Festival in 1985. Grieg's "Symphonic Dances" receives its second festival performance, having been first performed in 1973 with Thor Johnson conducting. To close the concert, Henning Kraggerud returns for his second PMF performance as soloist in the Beethoven "Violin Concerto." Victor Yampolsky conducts.

Lodging: Rowleys Bay Resort

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Closed Rehearsal / Meet the Assistant Conductor / Free Afternoon and Evening

Breakfast: Breakfast in the hotel restaurant, buffet style.

Morning: We will take a field trip to Gibraltar School and visit the old gymnasium where the orchestra performed for its first 38 seasons. This will help put all of the history from day one into a visual context. We will then walk to the adjoining Door Community Auditorium for a full tour of that facility. We'll attend a rehearsal of the Festival Orchestra. Rehearsals are usually closed to the public so this will be a special treat for Road Scholar participants. Associate Conductor Stephen Alltop will brief the group on what a conductor wants and needs to accomplish in a rehearsal.

Lunch: Lunch in the hotel restaurant, buffet style.

Afternoon: FREE AFTERNOON. The afternoon is free so participants can choose activities of their own interests. Visit an artist's studio or gallery and look for original art. Take the ferry to Washington Island and explore the Stave Church and ostrich farm. Information on special events and options will be provided.

Dinner: Dinner in the hotel restaurant, buffet style.

Evening: FREE EVENING. The evening is free so participants can choose activities of their own interests. Go to a play at Peninsula Players Theater or American Folklore Theater, explore the local music scene or soak up a gorgeous sunset.

Lodging: Rowleys Bay Resort

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Breakfast in the hotel restaurant.

Morning: There are only two full time staff members at the Peninsula Music Festival. Without the help of over 100 volunteers, the Peninsula Music Festival would not take place. Founded by and run by volunteers for its first 38 years of existence, the Festival is a model for successful volunteer management. Ms. Challoner Brown, president of the volunteer committee for the Peninsula Music Festival, will share her insight on how the Festival comes together each year with the hard work of the volunteers. From serving lunch to the orchestra to picking up guest artists at the airport, to finding belts, bow ties or white jackets to replace ones that have been left behind. Our volunteers have done it all, seen it all and heard it all!

Lunch: Lunch in the hotel restaurant.

Afternoon: In the afternoon Maestro Yampolsky will come to the resort to talk about his role in the process. What does he do and how does he do it? How does the Music Director work with the management of the Orchestra to program and prepare a season of music? Does an orchestra really follow and/or need the conductor? Maestro Yampolsky is a dynamic speaker and sure to delight the participants.

Dinner: Dinner in the hotel restaurant.

Evening: PENINSULA MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERT. Board our motor coach for a quick trip to Fish Creek. Anna Burden makes her first PMF solo appearance in the Prokofiev "Sinfonia Concertante" which was first performed at the Festival in 1989 with Wendy Warner, cello and most recently in 2000 with Mark Kosower. Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise" was first heard at the PMF in 1990 and most recently in 2004. Tonight's concert closes with Mussorgsky's "Pictures at An Exhibition," orchestrated by Ravel, in it's second PMF performance, having been first heard at PMF in 2001. Victor Yampolsky conducts.

Lodging: Rowleys Bay Resort

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Breakfast in the hotel restaurant. This is your last chance to eat the resort's famous caramel pecan rolls and Swedish pancakes with cherry topping!

Morning: Program ends after breakfast. Please turn in your program evaluation to the Group Leader. Check out and departure. Thank you for joining us for this Road Scholar program.

Meals Included: Breakfast